Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen's Receipt Books (Studies in Book and Print Culture)
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (619 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1487520034 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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‘These remarkable 17th century books invite us to consider which forms of writing are actually woven into the fabric of how we live, and who is producing them.’ (Eugenia Zuroski Literary Review of Canada May 2017)
. Kristine Kowalchuk is an instructor of critical reading and writing at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
Apricot wine and stewed calf’s head, melancholy medicine and "ointment of roses."Welcome to the cookbook Shakespeare would have recognized. These texts played an important role in the history of women’s writing and literacy and contributed greatly to issues of authorship, authority, and book history. Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books–handwritten manuals that included a combination of culinary recipes, medical remedies, and household tips which documented the work of women at home. Kristine Kowalchuk argues that receipt books served as a form of folk writing, where knowledge was shared and passed between generations. Kowalchuk’s revelatory interdisciplinary study offers unique insights into early modern women’s writings and the original sharing economy.